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My favorite bit of electric locomotive technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc Closely followed by
by hwillis 9y ago
My favorite bit of electric locomotive technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc
Closely followed by dynamic braking, or as it is more accurately and much more awesomely called in the UK, rheostatic braking.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoSomeone posted one of these on /r/electricians the other day running an elevator in New Zealand; very cool piece of tech. https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/6vpg8n/the_mercury_arc_rectifier_that_powers_the_durie/ https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/6vpg8n/the_me...